Libros

Les mémoires d'Alexis, 3e baron de Redé, appartenant au plus haut cercle de la société mondaine européenne et américaine, collectionneur d'art et chantre de l'élégance et du goût. Arrivé à Paris en 1946, il s'installe dans le prestigieux hôtel Lambert, sur l'Île-Saint-Louis, dont il occupe l'étage (...)

Widely acknowledged as the last great landscape designer of the eighteenth century, Humphry Repton created work that survives as a bridge between the picturesque theory of Capability Brown and the pastoral philosophy of Frederick Law Olmsted. By turns inspired by and in opposition to the grandeur (...)

The history of air combat has seen one recurring theme?new tactics are learned in battle, forgotten or discarded when battle concludes, and relearned at great cost during the next war. This cycle continued into the 1960s, when America was drawn into the Vietnam War. Despite having a skill and (...)

Jeanne Digard ganó con este libro, publicado en París en 1934, el Prix Montyon de l?Académie Française. Su mérito fue insertar el palacio, los jardines y las esculturas de La Granja en el contexto del arte francés del siglo XVIII, no como mera copia de Versalles o Marly, sino como una creación (...)